With the huge amount of threats lingering on the Internet, it is impossible nowadays to connect, browse and download files without an antivirus capable of protecting us both from human error (like clicking on links before reading them) and from the attacks that may reach us without us knowing it, like exploits that benefit from a vulnerability. Nowadays there is a great variety of antiviruses on the market, so it can be hard to choose which one will be the best antivirus for 2018.

From Windows Defender, the default antivirus included on Windows 10, to some well-known ones such as Kaspersky, McAfee, Bitdefender and Avast and up to some antiviruses we probably never heard of (and still they get the maximum grade on security tests), the variety of antiviruses we can find nowadays is huge. Because of this, we probably have had doubts many times about which one is the best antivirus and which of them should we choose to protect us from threats.

AV-Test is a German independent platform that analyzes the main antiviruses on the market and allows us to easily understand which of them got the best grade and so, which of them protect us better and which of them do it worse. This platform usually publishes their results periodically for the different operative systems and now it is time for Windows 10, specifically, for Fall Creators Update, the latest version of the operative system. Continue reading “AV-Test shows us the best antiviruses for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update”→

There’s no doubt that the beginning of this year has been branded, mainly, by the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre, two security errors hidden on Intel, AMD and ARM’s processors that have cornered all of the computing industry. The complexity of these vulnerabilities makes them hard to fix as well as hard to exploit. But while developers still haven’t found a solution for these vulnerabilities, the first pieces of malware capable of successfully exploiting this security errors are already appearing.

According to security researchers from AV-Test, Fortinet and Minerva, from a few days ago, malware that exploits this vulnerabilities on Intel’s, AMD’s and ARM’s processors has been appearing. Moreover, the number of these samples registered on the last week has grown considerably, right now being 119 pieces of malware capable of successfully exploiting Meltdown and Spectre. Continue reading “We will soon see malware taking advantage of Meltdown and Spectre”→

Mozilla keeps improving its browser by introducing interesting novelties. The latest one that we heard about today was the plan to strip the path information from the referrer when a user visits third-party sites using Firefox 59 Stable. The new feature is only available in the browser’s private browsing mode. This means that the information of the site where the click is performed will not be sent when visiting a third-party page. That is, if we are browsing the web and click on a link, the new webpage will not know where that click comes from.

Firefox 59 will not send data when clicking on a link

Web browsers provide information to sites when connections are made. Part of this is the referrer value that holds the path of the site. This is exactly what Mozilla tries to get rid of with Firefox 59, although it will only work with the private browsing mode.

Many people have to travel for work at any time of year. However, during the summer the number of people traveling (for leisure in this case) increases. In an interconnected world where personal data is very valuable for hackers and where we usually take all kind of personal information with us, it is essential to keep our device (both Android and iOS) safe and protected to prevent any unauthorized person from accessing it.

iOS is the OS that Apple installs on its iPads and iPhones. This system, which is closed source as opposed to Android, is also much more secure because it is very complicated to run unsigned malicious software on it (unless the device is jailbroken) and skip security measures. Therefore, in most cases, the information stored in the device is secured and no one can access it. However, it is always good to take precautions whenever we go on a trip to prevent hackers from identifying us and accessing our data.

We surely have heard a lot about ransomware. When it infects our PC, this computer threat automatically encrypts our hard drives’ entire data and asks us to pay a ransom in exchange for the private key to recover our data. In many cases, said key is not even sent. Since the usual antivirus software are not able to detect and mitigate this threat, there are solutions, like AppCheck Anti-Ransomware, specially designed to face it.

AppCheck Anti-Ransomware is a free software (for personal usage) designed to detect and block any ransomware threat that could put our PCs at risk. This program has a detection engine that constantly checks our system to detect any possible ransomware before our system gets infected and our data gets encrypted. Additionally, in case our data has been encrypted, AppCheck is able to recover the damaged files without problems.

We are increasingly using our phones to connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi networks and both 3G and 4G connections, allowing us to be connected in any place at any time. However, even if we have a 300 MB connection, for example, in most cases our smartphones’ connection speed can be quite slow when connected either through Wi-Fi or 4G. In the end, it turns out to be much lower than our PC’s connection, for example. For gaming, I still recommend you to buy a gaming laptop.

The reasons why our smartphone’s Internet connection is slow can vary a lot. They can be related to the smartphone’s hardware, the router, a software-related problem or an electromagnetic issue, so it is often quite complicated to identify and solve these problems.

In this article, we are going to talk about the most common reasons behind our smartphone’s problems with the Internet connection speed.

Main causes of the smartphone’s problems with the Internet speed

Problems with the Wi-Fi network speed

Undoubtedly, one of the main causes of both speed and connection problems is a weak Wi-Fi connection due to the phone being far away from the main router. Both Android and iOS show us the Wi-Fi strength on our smartphone’s status bar when we are connected to a network. So, if we see that the signal is weak, we can get closer to the router, place it somewhere else or get signal repeaters to improve coverage and be able to connect to the network. Continue reading “Is your smartphone’s Internet connection slow? These are the main reasons”→

Mozilla keeps improving its browser by introducing interesting novelties. The latest one that we heard about today was the plan to strip the path information from the referrer when a user visits third-party sites using Firefox 59 Stable. The new feature is only available in the browser’s private browsing mode. This means that the information of the site where the click is performed will not be sent when visiting a third-party page. That is, if we are browsing the web and click on a link, the new webpage will not know where that click comes from.

Firefox 59 will not send data when clicking on a link

Web browsers provide information to sites when connections are made. Part of this is the referrer value that holds the path of the site. This is exactly what Mozilla tries to get rid of with Firefox 59, although it will only work with the private browsing mode.

When we click on a link, its URL is sent as the referrer by default. The data reveals information to sites. While this is usually limited to the full URL of the page the user comes from, it sometimes may include critical information that users may not want to share with other sites.

There have been some cases, like when the Electronic Frontier Foundation discovered in 2015 that the site healthcare.gov was sending personal data to third-party sites through the referrer.

The data revealed the user’s age, zip code, income, etc. While this might not be enough to identify a user, we have to consider that sites may access a user’s IP address and other information as well.

Firefox 59 will not allow webpages to receive this data. Sites will only know the main domain where the click was performed. The real webpage’s information or any other information related to the URL will not be sent.

Private browsing mode

This only happens in the private browsing mode. Firefox users can use the special browsing mode by clicking on Menu and on New Private Window, or by using the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-P.

Add-ons provided Firefox users with options to strip or delete referrer values for a long time.

Users who want to strip the referring information in the regular browsing mode may use extensions such as Smart Referer, which does that.

In the end, Mozilla is moving forward in terms of users’ privacy. Right now, as we mentioned, it will only work in private mode. Nevertheless, we can extend it to normal browsing mode with some extensions.

Firefox is one of the most used browsers. Lately, we have seen how Mozilla has worked on important changes that have made their browser able to compete head to head with Google Chrome in terms of speed. The introduction of Web Extensions was also key. Many users have decided to bet on this browser as their default one.

Windows 7 is still one of the more used operating systems. According to the source we look, some people put it in first position and others put it behind, even though by a little, of Windows 10. But we don’t have doubts related to millions of users all over the world use it. In this article we are going to talk about the best Windows 7 antivirus for corporate users.